In an attempt to capture the essence of Star Wars in a new fashion, they constructed a large barrel organ from Lego bricks that plays the movie’s legendary opening theme when turned. The barrel is separated into four parts, each representing one of the series’ iconic settings in plastic block form.

Hoth, the Death Star, Tatooine, and Endor are all featured on the organ, with each environment’s structures playing specific notes from the song. As the barrel turns each Lego structure toggles a note to be played on the attached organ, via a “reading” mechanism built from metal arms and Lego tires.

It looks fantastic, and sounds pretty decent too. Be sure to stick around for a short video that shows off the barrel organ in action.

Ugh. You’re ugly. Your face – It’s a severe waste of time. Looking at it I’m reminded of little pieces of broken plastic burned by a soldering iron. You should consider getting it checked out.

Oh, I’m sorry. Was I being inconsiderate? Am I commenting where the saying, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all?” comes into play? Maybe I’m ignoring the advice your mother gave to you as you have done.

Hard work is reason unto itself. The lessons that were learned here can be applied other places. If you haven’t understood that after however long you’ve read Hack-A-Day, you should consider learning it now.

What are you looking for? Some kindd of grand operatic Perfection? For shame. Get off your duff and do a better one if ya don’t like it! I’m just dying to see your version! Then you can claim the right to b***h about it!

I’m with you here bud. Please don’t complain about something as epic as this.

Sure it’s not at the height of Star Wars theme music perfection but that’s not the point. Did we bitch when the guys who made Star Wars floppy disk drive got the tempo wrong…noooo! So why bitch about something as cool as this!

In the event I had a Lego set as I kid I can’t recall them, as I can the erector set Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. With no youthful reference please excuse me, I don’t get excited over project that use them.

It’s not the tempo. It’s slop in the barrel drive, lots of backlash. They should have brushed up on the half a millennium of progress on drum memory. Worm drive! Gear trains have slop. Some of the finest examples came out of Germany.

Interesting. I like it. Personally I would have reversed the drum, so that the Lego’s come up from under the key activators. Thus the drum would rotate clockwise from the prospective of the camera in the video and the key activators would have been in such a way that the Lego’s would have come up from under the activator, the end that comes in contact with the Lego’s would go up, and the other end would go down, thus pressing the key.